Outage hits Vodafone network

Outage hits Vodafone network - The West Australian

UPDATE 2.15pm: Vodafone engineers are scrambling to restore mobile phone coverage to thousands of West Australians affected by an outage this morning.

A spokeswoman for the mobile phone network said a failed transmission link was responsible for the outage which started at about 9am.

She said engineers were working hard to fix the problem and hoped to return national coverage within an hour.

“We apologise to our customers for the inconvenience caused. We know how important it is for our customers to stay connected and rest assured we are working as hard as we can to restore services,” she said.

Users took to social media to blast the outage, which many first discovered when shown an “SOS only” message on their mobile phones.

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Will be changing today thanks for your time and the heads up about the outage #ohwait